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quaker bill

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6. not my experience

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 06:52 AM

Dec 2015

I do agree with the first part, making people hate government is the campaign. However once they take over, they cut budgets, lay off people, replace management wholesale, then set up programs to give the remaining funds away to the private sector as quickly as possible. This is my first hand experience.

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